5 Best photography books like Stephen Shore: Selected Works, 1973-1981 by Stephen Shore

Cover of Stephen Shore: Selected Works, 1973-1981 by Stephen Shore

Stephen Shore: Selected Works, 1973-1981

By: Stephen Shore

4.30

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

Stephen Shore's Uncommon Places is indisputably a canonic body of work--a touchstone for those inte…

If you liked the photography plot in Stephen Shore: Selected Works, 1973-1981 by Stephen Shore , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Joy on Demand: The Art of Discovering the Happiness Within by Chade-Meng Tan

1. Joy on Demand: The Art of Discovering the Happiness Within

By: Chade-Meng Tan

3.94

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Search Inside Yourself shows us how to c… read more

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Cover of The Photographer's Eye by Walker Evans, John Szarkowski, Paul Strand, William Klein, Lee Friedlander

2. The Photographer's Eye

By: Walker Evans , John Szarkowski , Paul Strand , William Klein , Lee Friedlander

4.09

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

The Photographer's Eye by John Szarkowski is a twentieth-century classic--an indispensable introduc… read more

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"All photographs are time exposures, of shorter or longer duration, and each describes a discrete parcel of time."

-Walker Evans, The Photographer's Eye

"There is a terrible truthfulness about photography. The ordinary academician gets hold of a pretty model, paints her as well as he can, calls her Juliet, and puts a nice verse Shakespeare underneath,…"

-Walker Evans, The Photographer's Eye

3. A Short History of Nearly Everything

By: Bill Bryson

3.42

Format: None pages,

In Bryson's biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand--and, if possible, ans… read more

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4. Alec Soth: Sleeping by the Mississippi

By: Patricia Hampl , Alec Soth

3.32

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Evolving from a series of road trips along the Mississippi River, Alec Soth's "Sleeping by the Miss… read more

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Cover of Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors by Matt    Parker

5. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

By: Matt Parker

4.11

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

An international bestseller The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math… read more

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"If a new system is implemented, humans can be very resourceful when finding new ways to make mistakes."

-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

"Even when the data has made it into a database, it is not safe... which brings us, finally, to Microsoft Excel."

-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

"Now you can safely reply and say that nothing in the Gregorian calendar can happen less frequently than once every four hundred years. JUST FOR FUN."

-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

"It's times like this when the age of the universe becomes a useful unit of measurement: 64-bit Unix time will last until twenty-one times the age of the universe from now - until (assuming we don't m…"

-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

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6. Earthlings

By: Sayaka Murata

3.60

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witc… read more

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"Sobreviver, haja o que houver."

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

"O senso comum é uma doença contagiosa e é difícil manter a infecção sozinho."

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

"I thought that when I grew up society would brainwash me, but it didn't work."

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

"Até quando eu teria de sobreviver? Será que algum dia poderia apenas viver e não sobreviver?"

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

Cover of Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata

7. Life Ceremony

By: Sayaka Murata

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stori… read more

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"Nowadays, your partner is not necessarily a sex object - this is a wonderful advancement."

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

"I'm seeking an amicable daily routine with someone I get along well with, like brother and sister, without being a slave to sex"

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

"Walking like this, feeling like a feral human, even machines and buildings were warm to the touch, and some emitted sounds and vibrations. Their presence was similar to the sounds emitted by life-for…"

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

"If they tried it, the memories of the wild rooted in their flesh would come back to them, and they would discover that eating the city like this would connect the earth between the gaps in the concre…"

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

Cover of An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

8. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

By: Ed Yong

4.47

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more

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"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Cover of How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan

9. How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

By: Michael Pollan

4.27

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most admired writers takes us on a m… read more

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"The opposite of spiritual is not material but egotistical."

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

"Normal waking consciousness feels perfectly transparent, and yet it is less a window on reality than the product of our imaginations-a kind of controlled hallucination."

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

"Nature does in fact teem with subjectivities — call them spirits if you like — other than our own; it is only the human ego, with its imagined monopoly on subjectivity, that keeps us from recognizing…"

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

"The philosophical implications of "predictive coding" are deep and strange. The model suggests that our perceptions of the world offer us not a literal transcription of reality but rather a seamless …"

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

Cover of Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor

10. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

By: James Nestor

4.15

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matt… read more

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Cover of Where I Find Myself: A Lifetime Retrospective by Joel Meyerowitz

11. Where I Find Myself: A Lifetime Retrospective

By: Joel Meyerowitz

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Where I Find Myself is the first major single book retrospective of one of America's leading photog… read more

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Cover of Stephen Shore: Selected Works, 1973-1981 by Stephen Shore

12. Stephen Shore: Selected Works, 1973-1981

By: Stephen Shore

4.30

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

Stephen Shore's Uncommon Places is indisputably a canonic body of work--a touchstone for those inte… read more

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Cover of Photographs by Robert Capa

13. Photographs

By: Robert Capa

4.45

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Robert Photographs is a major retrospective of one of the century’s greatest photographers. Drawin… read more

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19 Top fiction books like Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

Transform Your Habits

A Short Stay in Hell

Steven L. Peck

4.22

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Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

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Agustina Bazterrica

3.79

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Mona Awad

3.56

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